Newest Literature Essays

When talking about masterpieces in English theater, John Osbornes “Look back in anger” must be mentioned. Kenneth Tynan, critic for The Observer in 1956, claimed the play to be “the first totally original play of a new generation” (Bond, 1999)....

“We moved deeper into the dead of night.” (page 50) Throughout Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto uses light and dark to describe the environment around Mikage, as well as assigning these traits to characters whom she interacts with. However, it is not so...

In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley analyzes the fragmented sense of self that presupposes contemporary male subjectivity under capitalism, thus anticipating a psychological condition that Freud only gave language to a century later. Freud’s...

In her novel To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf uses a stream-of-consciousness style in order to construct a unique account of the fragmented and isolated condition of the British citizen in the years leading up to, during, and following World War...

Joseph Conrad frames his novella Heart of Darkness as a story told within another story in order to draw attention to and subsequently critique the silence regarding the horrors that characterized nineteenth-century European imperialism—a time...

In Genesis III of the Bible, a serpent approaches Eve, the original woman, in the Garden of Eden. The sly serpent asks Eve if she has eaten from every tree in the garden, and she replies that she has eaten from all but one. There is a tree in the...

Charles Johnston and Vladimir Nabokov are the most well-known translators of Eugene Onegin, because they focused on different aspects of the text and ended up with entirely distinct renditions of the same work. Johnston, a British diplomat and...

In The Ballad of the White Horse, an epic poem by author G.K.Chesterton, a fallen King Alfred fights the Danes in an attempt to preserve the last remnants of civilization in England. Initially, the future of Wessex men appears bleak, as Alfred is...

Beholding the flowers swaying with the breeze like a ballet dancer swinging her lithe body, watching the rain watering a dry land like a mother suckling her thirsty infant capture one of the interminable reasons for the immortal bond between...

Throughout the Victorian era people began to question societal norms. This time period is well known for its patriarchal society and the oppression of women through political, economic, social, and religious constructs. However, the role and...

The short story The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence focuses on Paul, a young boy who is obsessed with luck in order to earn money for his family. Paul assumes, that if he wins enough money for his family through luck, he can win his mother’...

Consciously and unconsciously, we are shaped by the world we live in. The events, people, ideology, and lifestyle of our era affect our thoughts, behavior, and how we express ourselves, be it verbal such as speech or nonverbal such as writing....

The extreme stereotyping in The Marrow of Tradition is Chesnutt’s attempt to reconstruct the riots of Wilmington, North Carolina and protest the barbarity and consequences of white supremacy. He uses characters such as Major Carteret, Olivia...

Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 film Triumph of the Will is easily the most important and enduring work of Nazi propaganda created, and possibly is the most important propaganda film ever made. While broadly known for its innovative film techniques and...

Marriage is a complementing union between a man and a woman. Marriage requires affection and dedication to one another. In Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess, the Duke of Ferrara is very dominant and expresses jealousy from his wife in his marriage...

The notion that the middle ages were accommodating to the rude, bawdy or obscene is one that is rarely used to characterise Anglo-Saxon literature. While the major canonical text of the later medieval period (Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales) is...

Through the use of contrasting structure and perspective, Thomas Wolfe’s stories “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn” and “The Far and Near” work in collaboration to explore the relationship between the modernist concepts of isolation in society and the...

Joint critiques of modern materialism and the resulting void in the life of the everyday man, Willa Cather’s Neighbor Rosicky and Eudora Welty’s Death of a Traveling Salesman illuminate the modernist dilemma of isolation through the characters of...

Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl's Moving Castle has inspired many audiences with its witty, creative characters yet deep set storyline and messages. Through Miyazaki's adaption of Howl's Moving Castle, a new, equally valuable story has been composed. It...

During Kate Chopin’s time period, women were legally bound to their husbands and the institution of marriage; they were also repressed sexually by the societal notions. The cultural constructs molded by religion and class during the late 19th...

It is a widespread belief that war brings peace through destruction, however, in certain circumstances, the destruction is so great that no amount of peace can reconcile the lives and emotion lost. In the short story "War", Timothy Findley writes...

In Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet is presented as a prominent, complex and arguably controversial character whose actions can be interpreted in a variety of different ways. It is debatable whether Lord Capulet really is a good farther to Juliet...

People are not always aware of the effect which their interactions may have on others. When an individual influences other persons, that individual may change those persons’ character traits and lives, and this influence may even affect how the...

As each novel and investigation into the human mind and spirit has demonstrated, we are creatures who crave honor and respect, the two key tenets to having dignity. Without dignity, we are nothing. Without respect, we fall to a lesser state - a...